MFA Bezalel- Graduation Exhibition

 

 

Movement Memory (2024)
Installation: agricultural net, discarded knits unraveling, shredding, ironing and needle felting.
Curator: Hadas Maor.

As part as the graduations exhibition of the master's program in Fain Arts, Cohen created a textile installation named Movement Memory (2024) 
This work examines the potential of recovery from crises that emerge in the development of civilization and characterize the current geological era, the Anthropocene or the age of man.
We live in a time of accelerated change and collective crises such as wars, pandemics, and global warming. Being the daughter of a farmer, Cohen knows the crisis of agriculture closely; as a textile artist, she is also well aware of the marginalization of local textile factories. Out of the destruction, the subtle movement of nature is revealed in a place where we thought it had ceased, as described by Gilles Deleuze in reference to the term "plateau": "continuous, self-vibrating region[s] of intensities". The existential forces embodied in the unraveling of discarded knits and their assimilation into agricultural nets by means of felting
thus vibrate and pulsate. They come together to form one organism or a territorial sequence, comprising organic and botanical elements. The whole is unraveled and reassembled, and the boundary between exterior and interior is breached while shattering the hierarchy and seeking an independent grip on the exhibition space and a foothold on the outer walls of the building, which until the mid-1990s housed the Diva fashion company.